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I played around with this (see: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/bluescsiv2-wifi-with-se-30.3410/) and used a cheap-ish Vonets repeater close to the SE/30. Not ideal but workable.

With worse PSU damage, it might have needed that. But I got the old dog fixed up!

I bought a Mac IIsi for repair from the web (thrift store site). Under $100 including tax and shipping. It arrived quickly was very well packaged. It was in reasonable cosmetic condition. The logic board was in good shape. The PRAM battery was dead but intact. There were typical signs of SMD cap...

I have Snow Leopard on my 4,1 for sentimental reasons :cool: . I also dual-boot to 64-bit Ubuntu. I think 10.7.5 is the latest release officially supported (though you may be able to finesse something later). I have upgraded to 4GB of RAM (though 6GB may work) and a 250GB SATA SSD.

Dedging the log, I saw sequences like this: Jun 23 19:34:29.946265 afpd[10829] {logger.c:405} (D5:Logger): Setup file logging: type: Default, level: LOG_MAXDEBUG, file: /var/log/afpd.log Jun 23 19:34:35.952955 afpd[10829] {afp_config.c:302} (I:AFPDaemon): pi:AFPServer@* started on 65280.81:129...

To serve my ancient machines, I decided to downgrade my Pi 4 from the apt-installed Netatalk3 as follows: remove Netatalk3 git clone Netatalk2.4 install required dependencies libgcrypt and Berkeley DB build meson and build Netatalk (per the vanilla INSTALL.md instructions). This built fine...

ChatGPT-4o is pretty impressive at identifying stuff from photos. So I threw it this: and asked "identify this computer". it confidently replied: Some details are correct .. but no. More training need.

I'm glad I have the same ROM/OS configuration as yours. But I'm seeing frequent instability from MacBench. For example, it always fails to save the results file completely and choosing to quit without saving always hangs the OS! But here's my result: And that's as bad as yours! Checking the...

I recently upgraded my SE/30 from a BlueSCSi v1 to v2 with PICO-W for DaynaPort Wifi. Subjectively, the disk performance does seem poor. I'm attempting to run MacBench 3.0. So far though, I've seen a failure and a hang .. but I'll keep trying. Note, however, that my machine isn't stock and...

Good to see A/UX live on. I installed A/UX 3.1 on my IIcx some years ago and have since carried it forward to IIci, SE/30, Q700 and Q650. It's somewhat pokey on pre-Quadra machines and the MacOS side is rather hampered by being only 7.0.1. But in its day, it was super-impressive. And many of its...

Sorry I missed this .. I used to do this regularly. It's a manual process that's straightforward but does require some precision. Here's what you need to do: If you haven't already, get a copy of the SCSI2SD User Manual from https://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php/SCSI2SD_UserManual and the...

I'd brought an SE/30 back from the dead: replaced the vacuum-less CRT and assorted video components, recapped, added 64MB RAM, installed 32-bit ROM and BlueSCSI. It now runs MacOS7.6, A/UX, and NetBSD-3. Nice machine, but only serial networking. TCP/IP over LocalTalk is possible but it’s slow...

I've been longing to replace the MacBook4,1 that I'd foolishly recycled years ago, so I acquired a cheap, semi-functional unit and restored it. It needed only a hard-drive, a new battery and a RAM upgrade to 4GB. It's a bit more battered than my original pristine machine .. but its perfectly...

Several years ago, I repaired my API1PC36 REV:A PSU using badcaps.net resources. For me, it turned out to be a starter cap in the primary circuit. https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troub...4-mdd-acbel-power-supply-issues-api1pc36-400w Watch out for the high voltage that doesn't decay too quickly...

I have the same MDD PowerMac3,6 as yours. I've had it from new. Apart from the loud and hot PSU, which failed once and needed recapping, it's a fine machine. I multi-boot OS9, OSX Cheetah, Panther, Tiger and Leopard plus NetBSD-9 and Debian-8. I configure yaboot from Linux for the...

There must be some variability though I've not not seen any. If you're not satisfied, get in touch with them since I know they have good customer support and returns.

Strange. I very recently installed 4 x 16MB of the OWC SIMMs in my SE/30 without issue. And I also use these in cx, ci and q700. In what way don't they fit?

CPU usage is 100% for early macOS versions. Prior to pre-emptive scheduling, most things was polled for and so the processor was always busy. macOS 8 introduced pre-emption and multi-threading among some blocking system services, but applications still needed to co-operate! It's instructive to...

My dead cache card also caused the machine to hang with a gray screen after giving a good boot chime. This card had bad tag cache SRAM chips which I successfully replaced. This 3-tone chime may indicate something else wrong with the card -- like a bad data SARM chips or the main ASIC. Since the...

I suggest subscribing to the YouTube channels of at least JDW, Mac84 and Branchus Creations, and catching up on back-issues. There's a lot of nonsense amongst the good stuff .. but much of the nonsense is good stuff too!